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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

comparing excavated sites